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dearman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a Middle English personal name, Derman (Old English Deormann), meaning either ‘beloved man’ or ‘spirited man’ (from deor ‘wild creature’). See Dear 1.
  2. Variant of Irish Dearmond.
  3. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Diermann or Thiermann, which derive from short forms of the personal name Dietrich or perhaps from Middle High German tier ‘animal’, ‘game’ + man ‘man’ and thus denote a game or venison dealer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dearman Families in the US in 1920
Number of dearman families
 29-55
 10-28
 1-9
 0
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